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And it is about  IN THIS TIME OF INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS IS THERE ANYTHING LEADING CITIZENS CAN DO TO HELP AMERICA? 

This project led to a cooperative research project between forest scientists in the USSR and the USA.

Here, the forest scientists from both nations work together in American wilderness.

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MORE ABOUT THIS VIDEO NEWSLETTER In 2019, I started a new Video Newsletter.   In these new video issues, I will discuss a wide variety of topics: science, music, poetry, and art as they form a context for life in our time and especially what we believe to be scientifically true.

There is a lot of noise in what we hear as the truth these days.  How can we distinguish which things are thrown out to the general public as truths, but are  driven by an intentional bias, versus those statements that are based on evidence derived from logical and scientific means.  My goal with this newsletter is to help people make these distinctions.

So, I have jumped into what I believe is a unique experiment creating a video newsletter by someone with a scientific and scholarly background and in addition experience as a professional journalist.

These video newsletters will draw upon my extensive experiences as both Professor at the University of California and other faculties, plus my extensive work around the world as a field consultant leading a long list of scientific inquiry/advisory teams of professionals. These teams were given demanding assignments to study, understand, and recommend actions to address very complex environmental questions.

In addition, we are offering an option to receive my folk music as entertainment for those who happen to love the folk genre as I do, and background about the folk songs, because I have had a lifelong love for and involvement with that musical genre. I have been a performing musician since my youth, and I had the good fortune to have had rich personal involvement with many of American folk music greats over many years. If you love folk music, you will be pleased to have access to this rich trove of material, sung and discussed.

 

 

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From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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Jabowa III Forest Model


Jabowa Forest Model
Jabowa Forest Model for Windows 7.
This forest model, used around the world, was developed first in 1970 by Daniel B. Botkin, James F. Janak and James R. Wallis

JABOWA remains the most completely detailed and well validated forest growth model available, accounting for 95% or more of the variation in real forests where it has been tested.

The book Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model (available as an eBook) provides a complete description of the model and the rationales behind its development.

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Sea Ice Study

The Bockstoce and Botkin Historical Sea Ice Data Study has a new home at the University of Alaska website. The data include more than 52,000 daily observations in an unbroken 65 year record from 1849 – 1914.

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